SOLUTION: Tanya and Cam can each wash a car and vacuum its interior in 2 hours Pat needs 3 hours to do this same job by himself if Pat,Cam and Tanya work together,how long will it take them

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Question 1146956: Tanya and Cam can each wash a car and vacuum its interior in 2 hours Pat needs 3 hours to do this same job by himself if Pat,Cam and Tanya work together,how long will it take them to clean a car?

Answer by ikleyn(52926) About Me  (Show Source):
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Tanya makes  1%2F2  of the job per hour.


Cam   makes  1%2F2  of the job per hour.


Pat   makes  1%2F3  of the job per hour.


Working together, they make  1%2F2 + 1%2F2 + 1%2F3 = 3%2F6+%2B+3%2F6+%2B+2%2F6 = 8%2F6 = 4%2F3  of the job per hour.


It means that they will complete the job in  3%2F4  of an hour, ot in 45 minutes, working together.    ANSWER

Solved.

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It is a standard and typical joint work problem.

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    - Solving more complicated word problems on joint work
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    - Joint-work problems for 3 participants

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